"professionals entitled ""Skint, shaken, yet still caring"". Cavell Nurses' Trust Cavell Nurses' Trust is a charitable organisation which supports the welfare of nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1917 in the memory of British nurse Edith Cavell. , Its objective is ""to help the UK's 650,000 nurses, midwives and health care assistants, both working and retired, who are in need of support due to ill health, injury, financial difficulties and domestic abuse."" In the five-year period before 2011, the fund provided thousands of nurses with support that totalled more than £2.5million. In 2015,"
"while the Kingdom of Bavaria retained the right to pass judgements to members of the Bavarian Army by a separate (the 3rd) senate. The presiding judge in the rank of a general or admiral was appointed directly by the German Emperor. During World War I, German military law enabled military courts to try not only soldiers but also civilians held to have violated the military law. Especially well-known is the case of Edith Cavell, the English nurse court-martialled and executed in occupied Brussels in 1915 for having helped POW's escape - which was indeed a capital offence under the German"
"World War broke out in 1914. In addition to nursing soldiers from both sides without distinction, she assisted some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. She was arrested in August 1915, court-martialled, found guilty of treason, and shot by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915. Her story was used in British propaganda as an example of German barbarism and moral depravity. Her remains were initially buried in Belgium, but returned to Britain after the war in May 1919 for a state funeral at Westminster Abbey before she was finally buried at Norwich Cathedral. Although Cavell's sister, Lilian"
"control of the occupying German forces and was used for executions. Amongst those executed at the site were the English nurse Edith Cavell (on 12 October 1915) and Gabrielle Petit (on 1 April 1916). In World War II, prisoners held at the Prison of Saint-Gilles were taken to the ""Tir national"" to be executed. The only remaining building is dedicated to Edith Cavell. There is a small cemetery, close to the present television centre, known as the ""enclos des fusillés"". There are 365 tombs, and a pillar among the graves marks the location of the urn containing the remains of"
"in England, Cavell began her nursing career in 1895 at a London hospital. Later she became the first matron of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels. In the course of her work there, Nurse Cavell helped British, French, and Belgian soldiers escape across the Dutch Frontier. For these activities, Edith Cavell was tried as a spy by the Germans and was executed. KENNY (Green) Named after Elizabeth Kenny (1886–1952), the Australian nurse known for her technique of treating poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, Kenny developed a system of therapy, which was sometimes too elaborate, too extensive and too time-consuming. However, Elizabeth"
"that her work for Wallinger consisted of making ‘enquiries from refugees and locals about German troop movements to and from the front lines’, and making ‘reports’ that she then handed to her ‘liaison officers (Ivone, later Sir Ivone) Kirkpatrick and (George) Bennett’, at the Dutch border. That type of work would have carried a huge risk for Anne. Getting caught as a British citizen doing covert work in German occupied territories would have meant almost certain execution. It was unusual for the British intelligence services to use British citizens behind the German lines in the First World War. Edith Cavell"
"de Jongh (nickname ""Dédée"") was 24 in 1940 and lived in Brussels. She was the younger daughter of Frédéric de Jongh, a headmaster, and Alice Decarpentrie. A heroine of Dédée's in her youth had been Edith Cavell, a British nurse who was shot in 1915 in the Tir National in Schaerbeek for helping troops escape from occupied Belgium to neutral Netherlands. In August 1941 Andrée de Jongh appeared in the British consulate in Bilbao with a British soldier (James Cromar from Aberdeen) and two Belgian volunteers (Merchiers and Sterckmans), having travelled by train from Paris to Bayonne and then on"
"open space with mature plantings to the north established in 1958. The building is a memorial to Sister Edith Cavell (1865-1915), a British nurse executed by a German firing squad in 1915 for assisting in the escape of allied prisoners in Brussels. The portico entrance contains a marble and sandstone memorial commemorating the laying of the foundation stone by the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan. Dramatically posed on the west ridge at the summit of the steeply sloping Hospital site, the Edith Cavell Block affords sweeping views across to the north of Brisbane. The building is a three-storey, H-shaped, facebrick building"
"near Norwich, where her father was vicar for 45 years. She was the eldest of the four children of the Reverend Frederick Cavell (1824–1910) and his wife Louisa Sophia Warming (1835–1918). Edith's siblings were; Florence Mary (b. 1867), Mary Lilian (b. 1870) and John Frederick S. (1872–1923). She was educated at Norwich High School for Girls, then boarding schools in Clevedon, Somerset and Peterborough (Laurel Court). After a period as a governess, including for a family in Brussels from 1890 to 1895, she returned home to care for her father during a serious illness. The experience led her to become"
"the sentence pronounced on her and on four Belgian men at the Tir national shooting range in Schaerbeek, at 7:00am on 12 October 1915. There are conflicting reports of the details of Cavell's execution. However, according to the eyewitness account of the Reverend Le Seur, who attended Cavell in her final hours, eight soldiers fired at Cavell while the other eight executed Baucq. Her execution, certification of death, and burial were all witnessed by the German poet Gottfried Benn in his capacity as a 'Senior Doctor in the Brussels Government since the first days of the (German) occupation'. Benn wrote"
"Andrée de Jongh Countess Andrée Eugénie Adrienne de Jongh GM (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007) was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised the Comet line (""Le Réseau Comète"") for escaped Allied soldiers and airmen. After the war, she worked in leper hospitals in Africa. Andrée de Jongh (nicknamed ""Dédée"") was born in Schaerbeek in Belgium, then under German occupation during the First World War. She was the younger daughter of Frédéric De Jongh, a headmaster and Alice Decarpentrie. Edith Cavell, a British nurse shot in the Tir national in Schaerbeek in"
"Edith Kurzweil Edith Kurzweil (born 1924 Vienna - died February 6, 2016 New York City) was an American writer, and editor of ""Partisan Review"". She was the daughter of assimilated Viennese Jews, during the Anschluss in March 1938. She watched from a dressmaker’s shop on Tempelgasse in November on Kristallnacht, as Nazi soldiers and ordinary Austrian citizens torched Vienna’s largest synagogue. She was separated from her parents, and fled to a children’s homes near Brussels, and then, to Toulouse in southern France in a boxcar. She acquired transit visas, shepherding her brother on a perilous voyage from France through Spain"
"of her sex, her nursing profession, and her apparently heroic approach to death. Her execution was represented as an act of German barbarism and moral depravity. News reports shortly following Cavell's execution were found to be only true in part. Even the ""American Journal of Nursing"" repeated the fictional account of Cavell's execution in which she fainted and fell because of her refusal to wear a blindfold in front of the firing squad. Allegedly, while she lay unconscious, the German commanding officer shot her dead with a revolver. Along with the invasion of Belgium, and the sinking of the ""Lusitania"","
"by the authorities during the Nazi years and murdered. Her paternal grandfather, Dr. Sigmar Ury, was prevented from receiving treatment for kidney cancer in the city hospital in Ulm because he was Jewish. He died at home in 1941, cared for by her grandmother, Hedwig, who was herself murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. After leaving school she took a succession of jobs, working at various stages as a cook, a herb gardener and as a professional carer. It was only in 1985 that she enrolled art the Exeter College of Art and Design (as it was known at the time)"
"Nurse Edith Cavell. He also worked as a physician in an army brothel. After the war, he returned to Berlin and practiced as a dermatologist and venereal disease specialist. During the 1920s, he had a close relationship with Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler who addressed love poems to him. This bond to her is the subject of the film ""Mein Herz-niemandem"" (1997) by Helma Sanders-Brahms. Hostile to the Weimar Republic, and rejecting Marxism and Americanism, Benn, like many Germans, was upset with ongoing economic and political instability, and sympathized for a short period with the Nazis as a revolutionary force. He"
"soon after calling on the Company administration to intern all remaining German and Austrian residents and to close their businesses. A town assembly in Umtali sent the administrator a resolution asking him to confiscate all property in the colony owned by subjects of Germany and Austria within 48 hours ""in view of German barbarity"". Most of Southern Rhodesia's remaining German and Austrian residents were soon sent to the camps in South Africa. Further periods of intensified anti-German feeling in the Rhodesias followed the execution by the Germans of the British nurse Edith Cavell in Belgium in October 1915 (""the Crowning"
"and Middle English. Indefatigable and fiercely proud, with her full mental capacities and never accepting her advancing age, she died on 9 October 1989, three weeks short of her 93rd birthday. Anne Dawson (secret agent) Anne Dawson MBE (29 October 1896 - 8 October 1989) was a British spy in occupied Belgium in WW1. She worked for GHQ Army in its Wallinger London unit in 1917-18, reporting to (Sir) Ivone Kirkpatrick who was based in Rotterdam. Anne Dawson was one of only two known British female agents operating behind German lines in Flanders, the other being Edith Cavell who had"
"manufactured confectionery for Australian soldiers during World War I, a work which was initially deprecated by many, and which she continued to make after the war in aid of various charities. Mme. Marval was a nurse, often treating patients at her home, ""Cumberland House"", 4 George Street, Norwood. She had been involved in the 1914 death from septicaemia of Ellen Phyland, but no charges were laid due to lack of evidence. Mme. Marval was convicted of manslaughter by Mr. Justice Cleland following the 1941 death of Edith Millburn, aged 20, from blood loss following ""an illegal operation"". At sentencing Mr"
"for starting World War I. The doctors, consulting between themselves with detached professionalism, discuss his condition and recommend opiates; because it is too late for surgery. The commentator lists a succession of wartime horrors for which Imperial Germany has implied responsibility, beginning each passage with ""Some die ..."". Most are unspecific, but the line ""Some die saintly in faith and hope— / One died thus in a prison-yard—"" apparently refers to the executed British nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915). The last lines name the monarch as ""All-Highest"", a supposed title of the German Emperor: it is therefore Kaiser Wilhelm, who had"
"set out for France. She worked as a nurse, at the family home of Chateau de Bellignies, which was in use as a hospital, and assisted Edith Cavell in helping allied servicemen to escape to Britain via the Netherlands. For this she was arrested in 1915 along with Nurse Cavell and a number of others, but escaped the death penalty. At their trial in October, she asked for clemency for her fellow prisoners, claiming that she and her brother were solely responsible. She was condemned to ten years' hard labour, and sent to a prison at Siegburg in Germany. The"
"have studied her life, including 2007's Academy Award-winning ""La Vie en rose"" — and Piaf has become one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Despite numerous biographies, much of Piaf's life is unknown. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate cites that she was born on 19 December 1915 at the , a hospital located at the 20th arrondissement. She was named Édith after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed 2"
"a detailed account titled ""Wie Miss Cavell erschossen wurde"" (""How Miss Cavell was shot"", 1928). There is also a dispute over the sentencing imposed under the German Military Code. Supposedly, the death penalty relevant to the offence committed by Cavell was not officially declared until a few hours after her death. The British post-war Committee of Enquiry into Breaches of the Laws of War however regarded the verdict as legally correct. On instructions from the Spanish minister, Belgian women immediately buried her body next to Saint-Gilles Prison. After the War, her body was taken back to Britain for a memorial"
"Electrical Engineers and the Royal Society awarded her a Hughes Medal in 1906. Their daughter Barbara later became a Labour MP, and grandson Michael Ayrton, was an artist and sculptor. Previously, Ayrton had been married to a cousin, Matilda Chaplin (1846–1883); their marriage had taken place while Ayrton was on home leave from India and Matilda was involved in the Edinburgh Seven campaign to open medical education to women. Chaplin and Ayrton's daughter was the feminist and author Edith Ayrton, wife of Israel Zangwill and mother of Oliver Zangwill. In 1868, Ayrton went to Bengal in the service of the"
"Assia Wevill Assia Esther Wevill (15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandate Palestine, then later the United Kingdom, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Shura using a gas oven, similar to Hughes's first wife Sylvia Plath six years earlier. Assia Gutmann was the daughter of a Jewish physician of Latvian origin, Dr. Lonya Gutmann, and a German Lutheran mother, Elisabeth ""Lisa"" (née Gaedeke). Her sister Celia was born 22"
"was an art dealer as well. His grandmother Elisabeth Gurlitt was Jewish, which would prove problematic under Nazi rule: he was considered a ""quarter-Jew"" under the Nuremberg laws. Gurlitt had a close relationship with his sister Cornelia (born 1890), who was an expressionist painter and was in contact with Chagall. She served in the First World War as a nurse and moved to Berlin shortly after the war. The lack of artistic recognition and depression led to her suicide in 1919; Gurlitt took care of her works, but part of it was destroyed by their mother after the death of"
"the war, she had done so for 118. Also like Isabelle, de Jongh was captured late in the war and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp rather than executed, as the Nazis disbelieved her assertion that she was herself the organizer of the route. However, de Jongh lived on long after the war, becoming a countess in 1985 and eventually dying in 2007, whereas in the novel Isabelle dies from the camp conditions not long after the war ends. Other historical figures mentioned include the World War I nurse Edith Cavell. Reviews of the book were generally positive. A review"
"Telegraph"" were published as a book entitled ""The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War"". Caine attended Nurse Edith Cavell's memorial service in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 29 October 1915; the World War I British nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers in Brussels from all sides without distinction. His account was published in The Daily Telegraph on 30 October and extensively in other newspapers. In 1916 he was invited to work with Lord Robert Cecil at the Foreign Office towards the creation of the League of Nations after the end of the war."
"until 1932. The tower is named in honour of British nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915), executed by the German military during the First World War. In 1985, the Alberta Ministry of Culture declared St. Mary and St. George a Historic Resource on the grounds that it reflects the 14th century English Gothic revival in Canada and is the only remaining ecclesiastic structure designed by A.M. Calderon, one of the early architects to work in Edmonton. In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited the church and attended Morning Prayer in a service led by the then-Bishop of"
"go out into the field to collect the wounded while under fire. On 24 December 1944, the first aid station was hit by a German bomb, killing over 30 wounded men and another volunteer nurse Renee Lemaire. Chiwy was with Prior in an adjoining building and was blown through a wall, but survived unhurt. She continued to assist the American forces until the siege was finally lifted two days later. After the war Chiwy worked at a hospital treating spinal injuries, married a Belgian soldier and had two children. She rarely spoke of her experiences after the war, and it"
"worn) representing ""Justice"" (left) and ""Honour"" (right). The wall also bears carved wreaths and nine heraldic shields, representing the provinces of Belgium: Brabant, Antwerp, Liège, Hainault, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, East Flanders and West Flanders. Vandals damaged the memorial in July 1920, while it was under construction, and for a time it was guarded by a nightwatchman. It was unveiled by Princess Clémentine of Belgium at a ceremony on 12 October 1920, the fifth anniversary of the execution of British nurse Edith Cavell in Brussels. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Belgium Leon Delacroix, and the gift was"
"Stuart Blackton. Of the ten films in which she performed, almost all were with Blackton. In 1918 John G. Adolfi directed ""The Woman the Germans Shot"", starring Julia Arthur as Edith Cavell. Her last screen performance was in 1919 in ""The Common Cause"", a benefit film to aid victims of World War I. It was produced by the ""Stage Women's War Relief Fund,"" a charitable organization created by theatre workers with the American Theatre Wing as part of the Federal Council of Allied War Charities. Arthur returned to Broadway in ""The Eternal Magdalene"", which opened on November 1, 1915, and"
"Dawn (1928 film) Dawn is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig and Marie Ault. It was produced by Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios with sets designed by Clifford Pember. Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story of World War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nurse who risked her own life by rescuing British Prisoners of War from the Germans. When Cavell was captured and sentenced to be executed, it sparked"
"1915 for assisting troops to escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands, was a heroine in her youth. She trained as a nurse and became a commercial artist in Malmédy. She was only twenty-five when the Nazis invaded Belgium. Her nursing endeavours were inspired by Cavell. After German troops invaded Belgium in May 1940, De Jongh moved to Brussels, where she became a Red Cross volunteer, ministering to captured Allied troops. In Brussels at that time, hiding in safe houses, were many British soldiers, those left behind at Dunkirk and escapees from those captured at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. De Jongh organized"